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Louis XVI summoned the Estates General, an assembly representing all three estates. Later in the year the number of representatives for the third estate was doubled.
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Deputies of the Third Estate declared themselves the National Assembly
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Thinking that the nobles locked the doors to their meeting place in Versailles, the first and third estates met in the king’s tennis court and
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There were riots against the price of bread, and the Bastille had gunpowder that the commoners wanted so they stormed the prison. It was the first violent and symbolic attack against the King. It's considered the Birthday of the Country: Bastille Day July 14
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Rural unrest had been present in France since the worsening grain shortage of the spring, and fueled by the rumors of an aristocrat "famine plot" to starve or burn out the population, peasant and town people mobilized in many regions
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The National Assembly adopted "The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen", where they demanded the rights of the people and responsibility of the government.
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Parisian women lead a march to Versailles, and escorted the royal family back to paris.
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"The National Assembly decrees that hereditary nobility is forever abolished. Consequently, the titles of Prince, Duke, Count, Marquis, Viscount, Vidame, Baron, Knight, Lord, Squire, Noble, and all other similar titles shall neither be accepted by, nor bestowed upon, anyone whomsoever."
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The royal attempted to flee the country and were arrested at Varennes.
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Louis feared civil war more than he did the prospect of becoming a constitutional monarch. He thus accepted the new constitution, swearing an oath before the National Assembly.
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The National Convention, the constitutional and legislative assembly of France, proclaimed France a republic
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The execution of Louis XVI, by the guillotine, took place on 21 January 1793 at the Place de la Révolution ("Revolution Square"), in Paris.
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Marie Antoinette's hair was cut off and she was driven through Paris in an open cart, on the 16th of October 1793, Marie Antoinette was beheaded at the Place de la Révolution.
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Decree calling for death penalty against those who promote royalism or the resoration of the constitution of 1793
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